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Fan fiction and midrash: Making meaning
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2014 Just as Jews interpret Torah through midrash (exegetical stories that explore and explain the text), fans interpret contemporary source texts through fan fiction, which functions just as midrash does to sustain community and enable members of that ...
Rachel Barenblat
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Yod, 2010 The theme of the fight against Amaleq occupies an important place in the rabbinic literature and it is not surprising that the Zohar should further develop it.
Roland Goetschel
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Reflections on palliative care from the jewish and islamic tradition. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2012 Spiritual care is a vital part of holistic patient care. Awareness of common patient beliefs will facilitate discussions about spirituality. Such conversations are inherently good for the patient, deepen the caring staff‐patient‐family relationship, and enhance understanding of how beliefs influence care decisions.
Schultz M, Baddarni K, Bar-Sela G.
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Ben Sorer U’moreh: Mishnah or Midrash? That Is The Question [PDF]
, 2023 What differentiates Midrash from Mishnah? In Midrash, usually a verse is referenced and is interpreted to teach us something, while in Mishnah the rules that we are supposed to follow are debated by the Tannaim and plainly stated.
Brunnlehrman , Joshua
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Election, Favoritism, and Freedom: Towards a Modern Jewish Theology of Matrilineal Descent
Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 775-795, October 2023., 2023 Abstract This article offers an account of the broad theological contours of the Jewish practice of matrilineal descent. I make the case that matrilineality epitomizes God's contingent preference in favoring and electing Israel. I link Mara Benjamin's recent work to recuperate asymmetrical power relations for feminist theology to the asymmetrical ...
Judah Isseroff
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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 714-748, September 2023., 2023 The most remarkable feature of the Hammelburg Mahzor, a fourteenth‐century German High Holiday book, is the inclusion of zoocephalic figures: humans with beastly heads. The purpose of this essay is to explore the semiotics and phenomenology of this specifically Jewish visual idiom, and to suggest that its presence lies at the intersection of language ...
Elina Gertsman
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Gender &History, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 642-666, July 2023., 2023 Abstract In their address to a predominantly female readership, fan magazines of the 1930s asserted that Hollywood was one place in which women were not subordinated to men as female stardom was superior to that of male stardom. The magazines’ representations of male actors were both compliant with, and resistant to, the tough‐guy image of hegemonic ...
Stephen Sharot
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Midrash Therapy: A Hermeneutical inquiry [PDF]
, 2022 This dissertation examines descriptions of Midrash Therapy as practiced in a continuing care group for Jewish people in recovery. Specifically, it analyzes interviews with participants who experienced Midrash Therapy, therapeutic documents from a ...
Jury, Robert T.
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Evidence, hints and assumptions for late pregnancy in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East
Acta Paediatrica, Volume 112, Issue 7, Page 1371-1377, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Ancient women, who survived childhood mortality, received good and adequate nutrition, did not work hard and escaped death during childbirth could live fairly long lives. Girls started procreation after marriage, usually at 15 years, had on average seven children, childbearing lasted 14–21 or more years and could happen at the age of 35 or ...
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RECONCEIVING THE PRACTICE OF HISTORY: FROM REPRESENTATION TO TRANSLATION
History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 1, Page 106-128, March 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT Arguing that history is not the application of a rigorous method to sources bequeathed to us from the past but rather a practice of coding that constructs “the past” in particular ways, this article seeks to delineate the key elements of this coding.
Sanjay Seth
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